Zed is fully open source. Fork it. The code is pretty nice, too, easy to understand.

VSCode is open source, too, but it's been pretty easy for them to keep forks from taking off by having proprietary extensions, a "markeplace", and other lock-in.

All they have to do is only permit official builds to talk to official builds (for security, of course ;-), and forking Zed becomes a lot harder.

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kelnos 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I really dislike the dismissive "fork it" response. You do know how much time and work it takes to maintain your own fork of something, right? It's great that it's possible, but to expect most people to do something like that is absurd.

	▲	ozgrakkurt 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I would be willing to use a very old version of neovim or sublime text with only bugfixes. Not sure how many people would use that though
	▲	efficax 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		i do know how hard it is, that doesn’t change anything. nobody is forced to use something like zed and if you think it’s important enough to stress about the product decisions they make, the open source license gives you freedom to decide what to do about it. anyway you don’t even have to maintain it. you can take gpl software you like today, build it for linux and with a docker container you’ll be able run that same binary for the foreseeable future. then you can choose to extend it or not